The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

J. B. Colbert
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  1. The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. - J. B. Colbert

  2. Death and taxes are inevitable. - Thomas Haliburton

  3. We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. - Milton Friedman

  4. Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires. - Adam McKay

  5. In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector. - Geoff Mulgan

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